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I MARCH 21. 2008 TALK IS CHEAP, fiCTIOn TALKS! Portland: 503-222-6USA Vancouver: 360-696-5254 Seattle: 206-753-2429 Everett: 425-405-2429 Tacoma 253-359-2429 LIVELINE CHAT, PERSONALS, FORUMS Wl FIND YOUR FLAME! www.livematch.com Unlimited VIP Subscription AS LOW AS $1.77 per day! (8 weeks package $99.00) want action that's all -shocks "The sight of your own blood, brought forth from your hand, is a violation that you yourself now control," Ron Athey writes in his online biography. Continued from Page 41 Kampnagel Theater in Hamburg, Germany. “In with queer and trans subjects, shot a series of Polaroids with Athey in 2000 that captured Joyce, 1 use real and imaged footage of schizophre nia, disassociation, self-mutilation and mother/ daughter incest,” Athey says. “The rhythm is set his androgynous St. Sebastian persona. Each by an EEG pattern, which is echoed by an au one, blindingly lit and lush in color, is a unique heels and leaning forward with his ornate cloak tomatic writer on video and an action painter on stage.” The climax of the performance comes when maniacal Mother Joyce, having been drawn back to expose his lower body, has a long trapped in a makeshift one-room insane asylum, string of pearls trailing from his rectum to the finally smashes through the plasterboard walls floor. As Opie admits, it’s an homage to Robert Mapplethorpe’s self-portrait with a whip coming of her symbolic prison and hangs upside down before the (presumably traumatized) audience. Free Walk-In HIV Testing ... and out of his ass, but it’s also in keeping with past Snapper joined Athey in 2005 for the Anonymous and Needle-Free Results in one week or 20 minutes The title of this piece comes from an essay Judas Cradle, his first Los Angeles perform by French writer George Bataille, whom Athey ance in 10 years. The title refers to a medi ask/tell about HIV status - then decide how to heat things up Mult. County STD Gioie • 503.988.3700 • All confidential, al1 the time print. In one of them, Athey, wearing stiletto * » work of Athey’s—in particular, Solar Anus. premiere of their multimedia operatic drama Monday Nights 5:30 to 7:30 has acknowledged as an influence on his artistic eval torture device replicated for the show, philosophy. Gilles Lazare describes the perform a pyramid-shaped structure on whose point Washington County Health Clinic - Beaverton 12550 SW 2nd (between Hall & Watson) ance in his long essay “An Endless Insurrec Athey sits anally impaled while Snapper inter tion”: “With an alchemical sun tattooed around rogates him from an adjacent podium. Their his anus, Athey proceeds to turn his back on the multilingual libretto is composed from a mo audience and pull an Ariadne’s thread of pearls from inside himself; a defecation of white glob ules which suggests how base matter digests the saic of sources including authentic transcripts opera and author Jean Genet. It concludes luminous violence of the sun through a scandal with Athey speaking in tongues, yet another ous eruption.” In doing so, Athey has taken the eerie homage to his messed-up childhood. For more information, call us at 503-846-4 or check out www.co.Washington,or.us/hiv ¡Se Habla Español! CAlLCRUISf CONNECT from Inquisition hearings, and quotes from ultimate taboo and turned it on its head: The In addition to his performance work and jour place “where the sun don’t shine” has become nalism, Athey occasionally teaches workshops the sun itself. Somewhere Fred Phelps just had on performance art and has been composing a heart attack. a memoir based on his Pentecostal upbringing Solar Anus is included as part of Athey’s star titled Gifts of the Spirit. Unfortunately, the book ring role in the Danish gay pom film HotMen is on the back burner for the time being. “I’ve CoolBoyz, released in 2000 by Lars von Trier’s written a huge chunk, but I wasn’t happy with production company, Zentropa. The film was writing that type of memoir-based book in my Portland nominated for five GayVN Awards (presented annually to honor work in the gay pornography spare time,” Athey says. “I’m waiting for an 503.299.9911 971.404.2544 industry), including a Best Solo Performance nomination for Athey, who also narrates the SO MANY GUYS - Listen & Reply to Ads FREE! Vancouver, WA 360.433.6100 t J film. imaginary time when I’ll have focus to give the writing style some clarity and continuity. © 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts presents R on A they Performances of Solar Anus carried Athey with Samantha Sweeting, Aria Benner and into the new millennium, during which time Micah Perry 8 p.m. April 4 at Hippodrome, FREE code he was also perfecting a theatrical multimedia 315 S.E. Third Ave. Cover is $8. MegaMates .com performance, Joyce, VISIT US ONLINE K in collaboration with soprano/musicologist Juliana Snapper. Joyce T ony L e T igre likes tea, books, cats and pain. debuted in February 2002 at the prestigious E'mail him at anthonyletigre@gmail.com.
